“It’s incredible,” Blanchett told Entertainment Weekly in October while talking about Ball’s achievements.

“I mean, you want to talk about astonishing women who have made a lasting impact? You walk onto a film set and you’ve got the female bathrooms called ‘Lucy’ and the male bathrooms called ‘Desi.’ She was the first female studio head, for goodness sake, and a mother, and she broke all the rules and changed comedy and was this incredible actress,” she said.

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“And then you’ve got this amazing love story between these two people. He’s Cuban and he’s younger than her,” she said, adding that Lucie Arnaz, the couple’s daughter, had been helpful in bringing the project to fruition.

“Lucie Arnaz has been so amazing to give us the authorized version of her story. It’s an incredible act of trust,” she said.